Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COMPOSER: VIRGIL THOMSON...
...Virgil Thomson was a first-rate music critic, able author, brilliant dinner- party conversationalist and world-class gadfly, but he wasn't much of a composer -- which is, alas, primarily how he thought of himself. Turning his back on nearly every major compositional technique of the 20th century, with the notable exception of pastiche, Thomson wrote archly naive, perversely | wholesome music -- tonal, uncomplicated and almost completely unmemorable...
Clausen also said he regrets decreasing his contact with students, but his extra hours will go toward research on the Apollonius Odes of Homer as well as works of Virgil...
...storm of hurled food, spit and excrement. Whitley responded with a strict set of disincentives. Curse a guard, forfeit canteen privileges. Throw a meal tray, lose your radio. "The burden is on prisoners," says Captain Davy Kelone. "It drives them crazy." That it does. Camp J inmate Virgil Smith likens his living conditions to a "concentration camp" and his punishment meals to "dog food...
...saxophone section, and played in jazz combos. Musicians were always coming and going at the Hot Springs clubs, and the first blacks Clinton respected were jazz artists he heard and tried to emulate. Despite the joshing he takes now over his sporadic bouts with the saxophone, his band director, Virgil Spurlin, says he was very talented and dogged in his practice: "He could sight-read with the best, and he kept me busy finding scores for him to read." Music seemed a way to test the wider horizons offered in Hot Springs; despite excellent grades, he would be offered more...